Tracy Mendham
HW 25: Responding to Riverbend
for A Blog of One’s Own: Women and Authorship in the Digital Revolution
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First, read the foreword and introduction to Baghdad Burning (Riverbend vii-ix).
Please also review Chapter 2 on “The Art of Summarizing” in They Say/I Say (Graff 28-38)
Write a post of 150-400 words that achieves these two main things:
o Summarize the Foreword and Introduction. Try to capture all the main points, and don’t
write a boring list summary. Remember to mention the work by its full title, and to be clear
when you’re summarizing Soueif and when you’re summarizing Ridgeway. These two
authors are, of course, distinct from Riverbend.
o Compare the Soueif and Ridgeway’s account to your own memories of the US invasion and
occupation of Iraq since 2003. How are your own impressions similar to or different from
the account in of the war in Iraq in the text?
Provide MLA in-text citations giving the page number(s) of the parts of the text you refer to
(both the text as a whole and specific passages you discuss).
Spell-check. Give the post a descriptive title that includes HW 25.
HW 26: 10-Page Peer Draft
Continue work on the 7 pages you produced for the last peer draft.
 Expand, add to, and improve the essay until you have a 10 page draft.
 Incorporate and cite multiple sources, including two or more popular magazine articles, at
least two scholarly or trade journal articles, and at least two books. (If you’ve only got one book,
remember that there’s a book on the course reserves at the library that you can use, and that you
can use a book relevant to the marginalized group you’re discussing in your work.)
 Make an appointment to visit to the Center for Writing and meet with a tutor about your
project. Send me an email before class telling me the date and time of your appointment.
 Bring a printed copy of the essay to class for peer review, and also submit the draft on
Blackboard.
o To go to Blackboard, go to www.keene.edu, then click on Academics, then Blackboard.
o Use your login and password to enter. If you’ve forgotten the password, contact the
Helpdesk to reset it.
o Click on Tools, then Digital Dropbox.
o Click on Send File. (Don’t bother with Add File. I’ll never see it. To get credit you must
Send File.)
o The browse button will allow you to select your essay from your computer or drive and
submit it. Please submit Microsoft Word (.doc) or rich text (.rtf) files only.